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Brotherton Collection1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

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chemistry1
coal gasification1
gas industry1
gas manufacture and works1
gas-lighting1

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Boys, Thomas (1792-1880)2
Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)1
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Green, C B (1820-1822)1
Hinchcliffe, John Jubb1
Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)1
Palmer, G H1
Read, William (1817-1842)1

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Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets, houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London, and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain; accompanied with comparative estimates, exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light

Accum, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838); Boys, Thomas (1792-1880); Green, C B (1820-1822); Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824); Read, William (1817-1842); Palmer, G H; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hinchcliffe, John Jubb

MDCCCXX. [1820]

Accum entirely rewrote his 1815 Practical treatise on gas-light in 1819, and published it under the this title. -- University of Pennsylvania. "This forms to a certain extent a supplement to the 'Pra...

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